Another request is to provide information for sections.
Information about readers, recording time & language.

Cheers,
Masa
Thank you Masa-san,

I have added to the Sections data:
-- language (In English, capitalized & possibly more than one word - ex. Old English. We have never had codes, but I will try to match them up - some of our languages are pretty obscure)

-- playtime - in seconds. NOTE: the total playtime for the project is still TODO, though is on my list for today

-- file_name -- just the file name and extension without any path info, if that proves useful

Sorry to be slow in responding! I thought that I had this thread marked to notify me on changes, but apparently, I didn't.

Regarding works, I would like to be able to access things smaller than a book directly. I think there is some support for that in the database already, as search results return works that are inside a larger collection. For example, I just looked and there is a story entitled "Laura" by Saki in the first Ghost Story Collection. I would like to be able to have a unique identifier (like the ones for the books) that I could use to reference that story, access it by paging through all the works, and even have a way to attach additional metadata to it - like a description, and maybe even an image. It seems to me that most people would prefer to access the story individually, as opposed to seeing it as part of a group of other stories that happen to be bundled into that particular collection.

That somewhat corresponds with my thought about "works". Sometimes a "book" is a single work by a single reader, sometimes it is a single work by multiple readers, and sometimes it is multiple works by multiple readers. We use the same section / chapter concept to represent both chapters in a book and multiple works in a collection of books. I don't know if there is anything in the existing database that distinguishes between the two, but if there is, it would be great to have access to it, and if not, it would be nice to at least have a way to add that functionality.

Another note on the idea of "works" that I've been talking about. I've mostly been emphasizing the case where there are multiple works in a book, but there is also the case where a single work spans multiple books. For example, Les Miserables spans 5 books. It would be good to have a way to access them as a single entity.

Grouping is used for other things too Cori - so we would have to have some way of differentiating between War and Peace in 15 parts and the short story collections - all 50 odd of them and something like the Trollope Palliser series for example.